PURE HELL: Church play vilifies gays, abortions

A CHURCH Halloween play has come under fire for vilifying homosexuals, drug users, women who have abortions and the doctors who perform them.

BJ Pringle, a 26-year-old insurance investigator from Winnellie, NT, went to the Saturday performance put on at the Potters House church in Casuarina, not realising until arriving that it was a church because the ads didn't mention it, reports the NT News.

"(The event) was extremely offensive to both me and my friends," he said.

"After, the film said homosexuals were taking over the world, and the world better prepare," Mr Pringle said.

He said violent scenes were acted out for a woman who had an abortion and a doctor who performed it.

"They had the doctor who performed the abortion shackled in chains with a slit throat," Mr Pringle said.

"Death was dragging him around the room (saying) his life would pay for the many lives he'd taken."

Potters House is a Pentecostal Christian church.

The $5 a head "haunted house tour" was called "Escape from Hell" on the flyers, which gave a mobile number and a street address but made no mention of the church.

It was held from Wednesday to Saturday nights last week.

Potters House Pastor Neil Prosser refused to comment on the nature of the performance, but said the advertising had carried a M15+ rating.

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